Best $10,000 investment card

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Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

I would pick a card that is not the common choice. My thinking is that if more people are thinking a Ruth card is most likely to go up, for example, then that card will be overpriced. You've got to zig while everyone else zags.

I disagree that you need to zig when everyone zags in terms of long-term price appreciation. When have Babe Ruth cards ever gone down as a "long-term" hold? Ruth is the biggest name in sports history and always will be.

That being said, I agree that there is stuff outside the big four sports that currently sell for very little but will pay off handsomely for the owners of those cards.

David Peck was buying up Wrestling All-Star cards when almost no one wanted them. His Hulk Hogan cards from that set are now worth 20X or even 50X what he paid for them.

I didn't see the skyrocketing price of Richard Petty's 1972 STP card coming when I bought a few of them 7-8 years ago. That card is worth 10X what it was worth back then, and the price increase has come at a time when NASCAR is less popular than it was a generation ago.

Picking the cards and subjects outside the big four sports that will skyrocket like that is easier said than done. Those are thin markets compared to how many people want a playing days Babe Ruth card.